Elements of English Grammar, Analytical and Sythethetical Arranged in Progressive Exercises (Classic Reprint)

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Elements of English Grammar, Analytical and Sythethetical Arranged in Progressive Exercises A Thorough knowledge of English Grammar has become an indespensable acquirement in a good English education. The theory of English Grammar has been long taught, and many eminent teachers have, by their ingenuity and perseverance, succeeded in combining much of practice with, the theory. Text books, that embrace practice as well as theory, are very rare. The author of the following pages would make no ungenerous criticisms, yet deficiency of practical exercises, arranged in view of the successive presentation of principles, is considered to be a point where many of our old authors, and not a few of our more recent authors, on the subject of English Grammar, have failed. Many of these have unfolded the theory in a clear and able manner - have furnished valuable aids to the teacher, but have not adapted their productions to the wants of the scholar. To this stricture, there are a few honorable exceptions among recent authors, yet, being in a respectable minority, their works do not find their way to public notice so generally as is desirable. Another source of difficulty in our Grammars, is bad arrangement Nothing is more common, than to find definitions that can not be understood, because they depend on definitions yet to be given. This criticism could be justified by hundreds of extracts, if necessary. Now, it is as unphilosophical to present the fundamental principles of Grammar, without an abundance of illustrations and verifications of those principles as successively presented, as it would be to follow the same course in mathematics. How unattractive - how absolutely dry - how utterly useless, would be the presentation of the theorems of Geometry, unaccompanied by those demonstrations that convince the intelligence of the truth of each successive theorem. And if, in addition to this lack of demonstration, theorems should be thrown in that require, in order to comprehend them, a knowledge of many other theorems which had not yet been presented and demonstrated, would Geometry be the delightful, entertaining, and eminently useful study that it now is? Why, then, is a course adopted in the presentation of the science of language, which would form a successful barrier to the acquisition of any branch of mathematics, in which a similar plan of presentation should be pursued? The custom of going through with all the principles of English Grammar, embraced under the four general divisions of Orthography. Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody, before commencing any thing like an extensive practical application of these principles, in analyzing and synthetizing, presents almost insuperable obstacles to success in the study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.